Wednesday was pretty much so a bust here in Northern Arizona. Thursday is another story. The band opened to spot locations in Western Europe. A quick CQ in the morning near sunrise brought a big surp
OK, guys I will apologize for my humor. Suggesting a 40m 8 circle array was meant as a technical Joke as in cross polarization. 73 bob, W7RH -- W7RH DM35qj "It has become appallingly obvious that our
160m has been open to EU from left coast the last two evenings. last night QRN levels from major thunderstorms off east coast diminished and I had a brief pipe line to EU Russia. Propagation from Ari
The annual Spring time QRN has arrived. This does not mean the band is dead as it is always open somewhere. Here in Arizona the path to EU is almost gone with the last EU contact being John, SM5EDX.
From the left Coast point of view there has not been much happening. VK6LW, VK3HJ and VK6GZ show up in the log again and again in the morning sunrise period. Not bad for a 9649.9 mi (15530.0 km) path
It is saddening to hear that Herb has passed. He was my first real DX contact back in 1975 on 160 and filled the log so many more times over the years. Truly a great 160m contester and Dx'er of the l
Here is a report from West Coast morning Joe group. In some respect we are lucky. The seasonal thunderstorm noise is not real bad yet in the morning hours. I see a few eastern guys looking for OC and
Hi guys, 160m is not dead. In late evening hours these stations have been active: LU5YF, LU5FC, V31MA and ZP9ME. In the early morning hours the following are quite active: JA5DQH until 11:00 UTC. ZL1
In Response, Yes, the trans equatorial propagation has been good but still thunder storm noise limited in North America. It can lower in late evening and in early morning hours. Len SM7BIC, sunset at
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Greetings 160m diehards, As we come into the 2020 Fall 160m season mother nature through some treats out last evening around 0300UTC. First in the log was John SM5EDX who holds the distinction of the
I agree to a certain extent that there has been a bit less CW activity. I hope at some point the novelty of FT8 wears off, but I won't take that away from the guys having fun. Yawn. Early the second
Greeting Top Band Enthusiasts, It is not very often at least from the left coast that we can ragchew with DX stations. With lower signal levels at many times, deep QSB we are given the left overs fro
Please, please, every year this so called SDR BS comes up. Maybe in some cases it is true, maybe not. All of the top performing trophy seeking stations must record their contacts during the contest.
I spent several hours listening to big gun stations Sunday morning with decent signals to Japan. JA activity appeared very good as on several of the gun stations there were multiple JA responding to
Regarding this thread I offer the following: In a rare occasion based on location with the proper terrain a dipole or Extended Zepp may offer increased performance. In this case steep sloping terrai
I will parrot the comments of Tree and Ron regarding call signs in contests on the reflector. Sudo callsign verification via web is verboten. I was 160m operator at K0RF in ARRL DX CW. I had a German
Out of the blue with continuous solar disruptions and high A and K indexes an opening occurred last evening. A Index zero and K index less than 1 the band was a bit noisy, typical of Spring time leve
With a little less thunderstorm QRN and a rather strange early opening to EU from out west. John, SM5EDX went into the log. I heard but did not work OK1CF whom was right at the noise level. Thanks to
For the second night in a week we had conditions that allowed propagation to and from EU. In my case only the best signals made it. Out west we have a little thing called the Auroral Ring that dips d